Mark Miller

Jan 7, 2025 | thefire.org | Mark Miller

January 7, 2025 DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 7, 2025 — The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression announced today it will defend veteran Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer pro bono against a lawsuit from President-elect Donald Trump that threatens Americans’ First Amendment right to speak on core political issues. “Punishing someone for their political prediction is about as unconstitutional as it gets,” said FIRE Chief Counsel Bob Corn-Revere. “This is America.

Dec 2, 2024 | americanhabits.org | Kileen Lindgren |Mark Miller |Ray Nothstine

President-elect Donald Trump made the housing crisis a focal point of his presidential campaign. He correctly diagnosed a national problem: housing costs must come down to improve the country’s economy and its standard of living. But having made the right diagnosis, federal leaders, like President-elect Trump and his administration, also expect state leaders to treat the condition, just like a generalist might work with a specialist to treat a patient’s disease.

Oct 10, 2024 | dailyjournal.com | Mark Miller

On any night, more than half a million Americans cannot affordor find a place to sleep other than outdoors or in an emergency shelter. In arecent case about this homelessness crisis called City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, all nine Justices of the Supreme Court had the opportunitytoconsider the Court's significant role in creating that homeless crisis -- buteach Justice ignored it.  The reality they avoided is this: A century ago, in a casecalled Euclid v.

Jan 4, 2024 | americanhabits.org | Mark Miller |Ray Nothstine

Americans think they understand the law. When they drive over the speed limit, they know they risk a speeding ticket. When they enter a piece of private property with signs that warn “no trespassing,” they know that to ignore the fence and signs is to break the law and risk arrest. Or does it? As it turns out, “no trespassing” does not mean “no trespassing” when the government gets involved. James Meyer found this out the hard way when a game warden trespassed on his property without a warrant.

Aug 29, 2023 | wetmachine.com | Mark Miller

In July, the Media and Democracy Coalition filed a Petition to Deny the license renewal of Fox29 (WTFX-TV) in Philadelphia. The Petition rests on a particular feature of  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadcast licensing law. Every 8 years, a broadcast station must apply to the FCC to renew its broadcast license, which requires a showing that the licensee has — among other things — the requisite character to hold a broadcast license.